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Miriam Rozen

Miriam Rozen

Miriam Rozen covers the business of law and focuses on how lawyers preserve and expand their client roster. Contact her at [email protected]. Twitter: @MiriamRozen.

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August 31, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Firms Trade Blows for Feuding Asset Managers

In a legal battle that pits Baker Botts against Jackson Walker, pretrial procedural and discovery battles have been testy.

By Miriam Rozen

10 minute read

August 30, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

Judge Tosses Pet-Sitting Company's Lawsuit Over Critical Yelp Reviews

A Dallas judge has tossed out a breach-of-contract suit filed against dog and fish owners by a pet-sitting company. The company and its owner had alleged in a lawsuit that a Yelp.com review critical of the pet-sitting company had violated a nondisparagement clause of a contract.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

August 30, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Judge Tosses Pet-Sitting Company's Lawsuit Over Critical Yelp Reviews

A Dallas judge tossed a breach-of-contract suit filed against dog and fish owners by a pet-sitting company. The company and its owner had alleged in a lawsuit that a Yelp.com review critical of the pet-sitting company had violated a nondisparagement clause of a contract.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

August 25, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Federal Judge in Voter ID Case Unwilling to Wait

Over the state's objections, Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos of Corpus Christi is moving forward with proceedings to determine whether Texas lawmakers had discriminatory intent when they passed the controversial statue.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

August 25, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Post-Oil Spill Breach of Contract Dispute Leads to $36M Judgment

Locke Lord team won for Spitzer Industries a $35.9 million judgment, including $3.5 million in attorney fees just for its firm, and $688,000 for contract attorneys.

By Miriam Rozen

8 minute read

August 24, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Dallas Appeals Court Affirms 'Death Penalty' Sanctions In Civil Case

Winning sanctions to terminate a civil lawsuit—so-called death penalty sanctions—may become a little easier in the wake of an Aug. 23 ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas in Dallas.

By Miriam Rozen

7 minute read

August 23, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Acquitted, Watts to Pursue Criminal Justice Reforms

"It is my new goal in life to use every resource available to me to reform a broken justice system," said the San Antonio plaintiffs lawyer who has earned $100s of millions in mass tort litigation during his career.

By Miriam Rozen

7 minute read

August 23, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

$14M Earnarked as Receiver's Attorney Fees in Stanford Litigation

If the deal receives approval following a scheduled Oct. 28 hearing before U.S. District Judge David Godbey in Dallas, then the lawyers representing the appointed receiver Ralph S. Janvey may receive as much as $14 million in attorney fees from the $65 million—less than the one-third of any settlement, which is the amount that they had previously agreed upon.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

August 15, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Digital Transparency Advocates Seek Sanctions Against SF Law Firm

The Electronic Frontier Foundation seeks sanctions against Garteiser Honea and its IP client because they wanted to keep documents filed under seal.

By Miriam Rozen

10 minute read

August 09, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Hanen's Sanction Order May Have Been Based on Misunderstanding, DOJ Says

U.S. Department of Justice lawyers filed an advisory with evidence about why their shorthand references to immigration programs may have led a Brownsville, Texas, federal judge to conclude, incorrectly, that they lied to him.

By Miriam Rozen

8 minute read